Lot Essay
Cf. Len and Yvonne Adams, Meissen Portrait Figures, London 1987, p. 137 for the etching of 'Cherry Seller' by Pierre Tempest and ibid. pl. XLIII for an original figure of circa 1750
Various Properties
A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A CHERRY-SELLER
Details
A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A CHERRY-SELLER
After the original model by J. J. Kändler and P. Reinicke from the Cris de Paris series, 20th Century
Wearing a green hat, lilac dress and flowered apron, balancing a basket of cherries on her head and with another basket in her hands, on a scroll-moulded base (restored through waist), 5¾in. (14.8cm.) high; another of a fruit-seller with one arm akimbo, balancing a tray of fruit on her head (restoration to tray, waist and right hand), 5¾in. (14.6cm.) high, both with blue crossed swords mark and Pressnummern; and a Vienna-style group of two cherubs playing music to two attentive birds (restoration to extremities), blue beehive mark, 5in. (12.6cm.) high (3)
After the original model by J. J. Kändler and P. Reinicke from the Cris de Paris series, 20th Century
Wearing a green hat, lilac dress and flowered apron, balancing a basket of cherries on her head and with another basket in her hands, on a scroll-moulded base (restored through waist), 5¾in. (14.8cm.) high; another of a fruit-seller with one arm akimbo, balancing a tray of fruit on her head (restoration to tray, waist and right hand), 5¾in. (14.6cm.) high, both with blue crossed swords mark and Pressnummern; and a Vienna-style group of two cherubs playing music to two attentive birds (restoration to extremities), blue beehive mark, 5in. (12.6cm.) high (3)